Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory. At a lunch given by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Khrushchev interrupted another of Bulganin's speeches to grunt: "And I hope next time we come, the Labor Party will be more friendly." When Brown came up to offer his hand, Khrushchev curtly said "Nyet," and turned away...
...through 1944 the U.S., through diplomatic channels in Moscow, sought to translate Stalin's pledge to fight Japan into a military plan. The Russians stalled. It now seems clear that Stalin passed down a nyet until he had made sure of his territorial ambitions in the Far East. These were finally laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur...
...became apparent in the next two days. Vishinsky announced that his government would abandon opposition to the latest Western resolution on disarmament-that is, if the West would abandon its insistence on disarmament by stages under rigid inspection. The West held to its protection clause, so again Vishinsky voted nyet. Then Vishinsky addressed himself to a Polish catchall proposal covering Korea, peace, disarmament, etc. The U.S.S.R., said Vishinsky, was "unswerving for peace." But on closer look, it proved only to be unswerving, period. Vishinsky laid down the same old unchanging demands: a one-third arms cut, scrapping...
...Joseph Stalin died, yet in that short spell his heirs had launched a busy peace offensive. They talked of peace in more earnest-sounding tones than they had used since Litvinov's heyday. They made concessions where the conceding did them no hurt: a da instead of a nyet in the U.N. Security Council, a pardon for a drunken Briton held in a Moscow jail, an agreement to talk over the exchange of wounded prisoners in Korea...
...close second to the British in a qualifying heat. Then they began to sound more like Russians at Lake Success. The British, it seemed, had changed lanes, so they had to be disqualified. But the British protested; everyone had changed lanes, they said. Officials agreed, ordered the heat rerun. "Nyet!" cried the Russians; they would walk out of the meet rather than re-run a heat they had already won. Finally, the Soviet Embassy made a concession: "We will contact Moscow immediately for instructions." Next day the word came from home: Moscow had decided to be agreeable. Thereupon, the heat...